California Funeral Directors Exam
questions with correct answers
funeral director - correct answer ✔✔ A person engaged in or conducting any of the following:
Preparing or directing the transportation or disposition of human remains. Maintaining an
establishment for the preparation, transportation, or disposition of human remains. Using the
words "Funeral Director", "Mortician", "Undertaker" or other title implying he/she is engaged as
a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment - correct answer ✔✔ A business in a building that must: Have a specific
address or location. Activities that take place at that location must be incident, convenient, or
related to the care and preparation of remains, funerals or disposition of human remains and
must have an embalming or storage room. The embalming/storage rooms may be at a different
location from where the business activities take place and under certain conditions an
establishment may share another establishments embalming/ and or storage room if under
common ownership, or there is a contract between them, and in close geographic proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Criteria for being a funeral director - correct answer ✔✔ 18 years of age or older, Have an AA
degree, or equivalent or higher. Not have committed any acts or been convicted of crimes
pursuant to section 480 of the business and professions code (Crimes or acts . related to death
care activities). Pass the Funeral Directors Examination given by the cemetery and funeral
bureau.
RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral establishment to engage in activities of
a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
,Funeral Directors Test - correct answer ✔✔ Before an individual is granted a funeral directors
license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of human remains, and the
shipment of bodies dying from infectious or contagious diseases.
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to funeral directing and
embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising - correct answer ✔✔ No Funeral establishment may use a
name style that is: Similar to the competitors, so as to constitute an unfair method of
competition, or that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment - correct answer ✔✔ Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment - correct answer ✔✔ Licenses are assigned only
after an audit of the preneed trust funds and any shortages have been funded. License may be
assigned upon receipt of a signed declaration showing the status of the trust and a bond equal
to 150% of the corpus (balance) of the trust, with approval from the Cemetery and Funeral
Bureau. False or misleading information may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment - correct answer ✔✔ Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science under supervision of a
licensed embalmer.
,Removal of Tissue - correct answer ✔✔ a licensed embalmer may remove tissue pursuant to
the uniform Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a licensed physician if the embalmer has
completed a course in tissue removal approved by the California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors - correct answer ✔✔ Anyone who consults with the family or
representatives of the family of a deceased person for the purpose of arranging for preparation
and disposition of a body must receive, every 3 years, documented training of all federal and
state laws, rules and regulations dealing with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
A Funeral establishment must keep a record of funeral arrangers.... - correct answer ✔✔ -
Outline of the training
-When and where they were trained
-Record of demonstrated knowledge (THE TEST)
Notifying the CFB of previous license violations - correct answer ✔✔ Any person employed by
or seeking employment with a funeral establishment IN ANY CAPACITY, who holds or has held a
license issued by the CFB that has been suspended, revoked, placed on probation, or
surrendered within the last 10 years must disclose that fact to the designated managing funeral
director, on the form provided by the CFB.
This requirement also includes licensed cemeteries, crematories and cemetery brokers.
Failure to make the disclosure can result in revocation or denial of license.
And the DMFD must submit the form to the CFB within 30 days. Failure to do so results in a
warning.
, Embalmer - correct answer ✔✔ Someone who:
-Disinfects or preserves human remains by injection or external application of antiseptics,
disinfectants or preservative fluids.
-Prepares human remains for transportation that have died from contagious or infectious
disease.
-Uses derma surgery or restorative methods for restoring mutilated features.
-Is licensed as an embalmer in California.
It is unlawful to embalm in California without a license except by Apprentices, Students,
Instructors of mortuary science.
Qualifications for Embalmers - correct answer ✔✔ -18 years of age
-Not committed any crimes or related disqualifying acts (BPC 480)
-High School Diploma or equivalent
-2 year apprenticeship under a qualified licensed embalmer
-Assisted in the embalming of at least 100 cases during the apprenticeship
-Completed an embalming course in an accredited school of mortuary science.
-Passed the science section of the National Exam
-Passed an exam administered by the CFB on California laws pertaining to the funeral industry.
If you have practiced as an embalmer in another state for 3 of the last 7 years - correct answer
✔✔ You are exempt from:
-High School Requirement
-2 Year Apprenticeship
*But you must STILL pass the state embalmers exam
*License is NOT assignable to anyone else
questions with correct answers
funeral director - correct answer ✔✔ A person engaged in or conducting any of the following:
Preparing or directing the transportation or disposition of human remains. Maintaining an
establishment for the preparation, transportation, or disposition of human remains. Using the
words "Funeral Director", "Mortician", "Undertaker" or other title implying he/she is engaged as
a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment - correct answer ✔✔ A business in a building that must: Have a specific
address or location. Activities that take place at that location must be incident, convenient, or
related to the care and preparation of remains, funerals or disposition of human remains and
must have an embalming or storage room. The embalming/storage rooms may be at a different
location from where the business activities take place and under certain conditions an
establishment may share another establishments embalming/ and or storage room if under
common ownership, or there is a contract between them, and in close geographic proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Criteria for being a funeral director - correct answer ✔✔ 18 years of age or older, Have an AA
degree, or equivalent or higher. Not have committed any acts or been convicted of crimes
pursuant to section 480 of the business and professions code (Crimes or acts . related to death
care activities). Pass the Funeral Directors Examination given by the cemetery and funeral
bureau.
RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral establishment to engage in activities of
a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
,Funeral Directors Test - correct answer ✔✔ Before an individual is granted a funeral directors
license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of human remains, and the
shipment of bodies dying from infectious or contagious diseases.
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to funeral directing and
embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising - correct answer ✔✔ No Funeral establishment may use a
name style that is: Similar to the competitors, so as to constitute an unfair method of
competition, or that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment - correct answer ✔✔ Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment - correct answer ✔✔ Licenses are assigned only
after an audit of the preneed trust funds and any shortages have been funded. License may be
assigned upon receipt of a signed declaration showing the status of the trust and a bond equal
to 150% of the corpus (balance) of the trust, with approval from the Cemetery and Funeral
Bureau. False or misleading information may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment - correct answer ✔✔ Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science under supervision of a
licensed embalmer.
,Removal of Tissue - correct answer ✔✔ a licensed embalmer may remove tissue pursuant to
the uniform Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a licensed physician if the embalmer has
completed a course in tissue removal approved by the California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors - correct answer ✔✔ Anyone who consults with the family or
representatives of the family of a deceased person for the purpose of arranging for preparation
and disposition of a body must receive, every 3 years, documented training of all federal and
state laws, rules and regulations dealing with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
A Funeral establishment must keep a record of funeral arrangers.... - correct answer ✔✔ -
Outline of the training
-When and where they were trained
-Record of demonstrated knowledge (THE TEST)
Notifying the CFB of previous license violations - correct answer ✔✔ Any person employed by
or seeking employment with a funeral establishment IN ANY CAPACITY, who holds or has held a
license issued by the CFB that has been suspended, revoked, placed on probation, or
surrendered within the last 10 years must disclose that fact to the designated managing funeral
director, on the form provided by the CFB.
This requirement also includes licensed cemeteries, crematories and cemetery brokers.
Failure to make the disclosure can result in revocation or denial of license.
And the DMFD must submit the form to the CFB within 30 days. Failure to do so results in a
warning.
, Embalmer - correct answer ✔✔ Someone who:
-Disinfects or preserves human remains by injection or external application of antiseptics,
disinfectants or preservative fluids.
-Prepares human remains for transportation that have died from contagious or infectious
disease.
-Uses derma surgery or restorative methods for restoring mutilated features.
-Is licensed as an embalmer in California.
It is unlawful to embalm in California without a license except by Apprentices, Students,
Instructors of mortuary science.
Qualifications for Embalmers - correct answer ✔✔ -18 years of age
-Not committed any crimes or related disqualifying acts (BPC 480)
-High School Diploma or equivalent
-2 year apprenticeship under a qualified licensed embalmer
-Assisted in the embalming of at least 100 cases during the apprenticeship
-Completed an embalming course in an accredited school of mortuary science.
-Passed the science section of the National Exam
-Passed an exam administered by the CFB on California laws pertaining to the funeral industry.
If you have practiced as an embalmer in another state for 3 of the last 7 years - correct answer
✔✔ You are exempt from:
-High School Requirement
-2 Year Apprenticeship
*But you must STILL pass the state embalmers exam
*License is NOT assignable to anyone else
